Buying pet meds online; the better way to go? If you've done it, any issues?

The housemate purchased heart medication online, and yes, it was much cheaper. I don’t know what site he used, and it was many years ago. There were no problems experienced.

I bought a huge amount of “Advantage” flea treatment from PetMeds® for my cats at a huge savings from what my veterinarian was charging me. Later I tried to by some medicated eye drops for one of my cats but PetMeds® required a prescription. A prescription from a vet of course cost me money because the vet had to examine the cat and wanted to sell me what he recommended at an inflated price. But after that I was able to use PetMeds® to save money.

My vet refuse to fax the prescriptions to them. He said they have gotten the dosages wrong before.

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Our vet offers the same discounts that are offered online, so there is no need. Ask your vet.

We’ve had good service from PetCare Rx when ordering Heart-guard. The shipping is free, and it costs a few bucks less and, I don’t need to travel to the vet’s office for it. Their office is quite a ways away. With the vet/ manufacturer promotions there is always the rebate paperwork to deal with in order to take advantage of their offers. I want the savings on the front end instead of jumping through hoops to hopefully get a coupon later.

There is another option which may work for you and may yield significantly greater savings. Im stating this based on the amounts ive saved myself on my own prescriptions and im assuming that, depending upon which medication it is, will translate to pet meds.

Hopefully you have an Android phone or tablet. There are several apps available in the marketplace which give you huge discounts at participating pharmacies and evidently this applies to pet meds also. Evidently there are increasing numbers of pharmacies which now carry pet meds as well as human. If I remember correctly both Kroger (definitely) and KMart do and I cant remember the others but you can check in your local area.

I know that you’re in Canada, but im going to check through the apps I have to be certain they apply there as well. And with most of these apps, you can input the name of the med, and get price quotes in advance as well as a list of participating pharmacies.

I was pretty doubtful about all of them until I tried it for myself and boy was I surprised at how much I save each month.

Also, most of these have a website where you can download and print out their card if you done have an Android device. Its just quicker and more streamlined with the app for getting prices and pharmacies.

Ill take a closer look at the ones I have and edit them in.

I’ve used Drs Foster and Smith with no trouble.